Robert Gibbs on why Obama’s home today

Robert Gibbs, a top adviser to President Barack Obama’s reelection effort, said Tuesday the president’s decision not to campaign on Election Day wasn’t a sign of overconfidence.

“We felt the president would have a better reach by staying here and doing satellite interviews into states and make sure the folks we have getting out the vote in important states aren’t burdened by having him coming into their states today,” the former White House press secretary said on NBC’s “Today.”

#8 "Obama is playing basketball today while voters in NY and NJ are freezing and hungry. No sign there of any presidential concern. Sink one for the Gipper."

More conservative stupidity. What else should the President be doing, getting in the way of first responders AND voters on ELECTION DAY???!

No, Obama is once again showing the confidence and wisdom of a great leader, one who is resting and preparing to greet anoher humongous crowd at Grant Park, Chicago tonght after he wins his reelection at 11:00 PM EDT.

You republicans are soon going to be shocked to discover that all those polls you ignored because you didn't like what they said were accurate. Not even your monumental efforts at disenfranchising minorities and young voters will be enough to counter that. It's a great day for America.

Repubs – is that why your party is doing all it can to suppress voting? And now you are here shaming Obama because he’s staying in Chicago on Election Day?!! Listen to your selves; I hear racism, hate, and ignorance – pretty much what categorizes most of repubs. Hopefully more than ½ of Americans will show today that they are informed people and will elect Obama, Not a hypocrite like Romney, a dangerous kind of man that believes his own lies therefore can never be trusted. Romney made 50 million out of the auto bailout. Read about repubs before open your ignorant mouth. He bought stocks when the companies were going bankrupt and after Obama save them he made 50 million dollars in profit. Now he bashes the bailout, lied and tried to get credit for it at the same time, lied with the jeep ad (yes, is not true, jeeps are made here for Americans, and the jeeps to Chinese are made in china, but jobs are being created here for Americans!) now, how many of you repubs have an iPhone and an iPod?!! Or any apple product?! They are ALL MADE IN CHINA! Why are you buying them?! Hypocrites! Another thing – there was never a republic or democrat president that put his money offshore to pay less taxes, all presidents, rich or less rich left their money in US and pay taxes to help their country. Your man Romney pays only 14% and puts his money offshore – what kind of man does that to help his country??!!! Your man Romney in the last debate endorsed Obama in foreign policy. So – in what exactly do you criticize Obama on foreign policy, if your man agrees with the president?! Romney knows you are ignorant, he uses that, and unfortunately, you are too ignorant to see it and will vote for this man with no integrity, no moral, and no core values to lead all Americans.

The Obama administration allowed millions of dollars in federal stimulus funds to go to foreign companies, despite recent statements by President Barack Obama that he opposes “shipping jobs overseas."

One example of the Obama administration funding foreign companies is a $337 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy’s green energy lending program.

That loan went to California energy firm Sempra Energy for a solar power array in Arizona. However, according to a Feb. 4, 2011 a NY Times report stated that Sempra Energy bought its solar panels from the Chinese firm Suntech.

The project, known as Mesquite Solar 1, reportedly used 800,000 of the Chinese solar panels.

Perhaps the best-known example of Obama administration funding of foreign companies is its 500,000,000 Automotive grant to Fisker as part of the Energy Department’s electric vehicle lending program, was made to help Fisker establish a U.S. manufacturing presence.

However, the company never established an American factory, choosing instead to shutter its U.S. operations and continue building cars in Finland.

Barack Obama did not hold campaign rallies on election day in 2008. John McCain did. Barack Obama voted (did early voting this year) and flew to nearby Indiana and visited a field office to encourage workers getting out the vote. He did visit his field office in Columbus, Ohio yesterday. And he played his traditional basketball game in 2008.

So all he has left to do this year is basketball. (But I'm sure he will be doing a lot of phone calling today.) It seems rather anti-climatic to be holding rallies and it detracts from the top issue of the day: getting the vote out.

I'm sure his SS detail are very happy to have him stay put after the vigorous workout they've had protecting him the last few day at huge rallies across the country. And for you guys always complaining about how much things cost the taxpayer, think about it. Romney is costing the taxpayer considerably more money than President Obama today on SS alone.